The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[kater23]

Just got home from Star Wars. In a word:Wow. I cried at the beginning and end, and I wasn't alone. I sat in the front row,but fortunately my seat reclined so it wasn't *too* hard on my eyes. I also saw it in 3d(the only showing I could get into was in 3D *and* I had to sit in the front. But it was totally worth it. To say nothing of paying more but really, if you can, you should see it that way)

[bjmdds]

Distribution executives are in complete awe and just can’t believe what they’re witnessing hour by hour. After shattering the box office industry’s preview-night record with $57 million on Thursday, Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set to knock over opening-day and weekend records left and right. You can scratch out that $110M opening day we heard about earlier. Force Awakens Friday — which includes that $57M it made in Thursday previews — is between $130M-$145M per industry estimates (not Disney). This puts Force Awakens in an opening-weekend range of $250M-$275M; a gross that sends Universal’s Jurassic World current opening-weekend record of $208.8M back to the Stone Age.

[English Agent]

Just got home from Star Wars. In a word:Wow. I cried at the beginning and end, and I wasn't alone. I sat in the front row,but fortunately my seat reclined so it wasn't *too* hard on my eyes. I also saw it in 3d(the only showing I could get into was in 3D *and* I had to sit in the front. But it was totally worth it. To say nothing of paying more but really, if you can, you should see it that way)

Glad you liked it, the film sounds amazing. Viewing in the front row though, must of been tough, as you would come out of the cinema with eyes like Marty Feldman.

[English Agent]

Distribution executives are in complete awe and just can’t believe what they’re witnessing hour by hour. After shattering the box office industry’s preview-night record with $57 million on Thursday, Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is set to knock over opening-day and weekend records left and right. You can scratch out that $110M opening day we heard about earlier. Force Awakens Friday — which includes that $57M it made in Thursday previews — is between $130M-$145M per industry estimates (not Disney). This puts Force Awakens in an opening-weekend range of $250M-$275M; a gross that sends Universal’s Jurassic World current opening-weekend record of $208.8M back to the Stone Age.

Yep, the film is doing mind boggling business in North America and the UK, and also very strongly elsewhere. The thing is though, will the film still being doing strong business after the Xmas and NY holidays, to have any chance of reaching the worldwide box office gross of Avatar?
Other film makers must look in awe at the ability of the Star Wars franchise to please the crowds, and bring in bucket loads of money.

[bjmdds]

“I was looking forward to it enormously,” said Brosnan, who played Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002. “I thought it was too long. The story was kind of weak — it could have been condensed. It kind of went on too long. It really did.”

The Irish actor also acknowledged recent Bond films’ tendency to take some cues from the gritty Jason Bourne franchise — movies that have resided much more in the real world than the invisible car or exploding pens of Brosnan-era 007.

“[‘Spectre’] is neither fish nor fowl. It’s neither Bond nor Bourne. Am I in a Bond movie? Not in a Bond movie?” Brosnan said. “But Daniel, in the fourth go-round, has ownership of it. He had a nice looseness to him.”

[The Sweeney]

Just got home from Star Wars. In a word:Wow. I cried at the beginning and end, and I wasn't alone. I sat in the front row,but fortunately my seat reclined so it wasn't *too* hard on my eyes. I also saw it in 3d(the only showing I could get into was in 3D *and* I had to sit in the front. But it was totally worth it. To say nothing of paying more but really, if you can, you should see it that way)

Yes I saw it last night too and loved it.
Absolutely brilliant, emotional experience.

I felt like a kid again watching it....

[bjmdds]

ECH-TRE dropped to 11th place Friday with only $360,000 in the USA, a 68% drop off from last Friday, and a much lower $1.4 million estimate for the weekend. SW did the final work, as we knew it would, even though Cr-egg has a supposed cameo in the film.

[bjmdds]

Just got home from Star Wars. In a word:Wow. I cried at the beginning and end, and I wasn't alone. I sat in the front row,but fortunately my seat reclined so it wasn't *too* hard on my eyes. I also saw it in 3d(the only showing I could get into was in 3D *and* I had to sit in the front. But it was totally worth it. To say nothing of paying more but really, if you can, you should see it that way)

Yes I saw it last night too and loved it.
Absolutely brilliant, emotional experience.

I felt like a kid again watching it....

Did you have more 'fun' watching SW, feeling like a child, than you did watching ECH-TRE, feeling like a psych ward patient Sweeney?

[bjmdds]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKp4xsrEg24[/video]

[Omega]

Star Wars $120 million in a day!!

If accurate cost $200 million to make


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[bjmdds]

Disney as well as other sources are reporting that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is currently coming in on the conservative side of projections with a $220M weekend opening, which would still be an all-time record beating Jurassic World‘s $208.8M.

[Napoleon Solo]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is estimated at $238 million this weekend for US-Canada, $517 million globally.

[Kristatos]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is estimated at $238 million this weekend for US-Canada, $517 million globally.

Obviously, the Daniel Craig cameo is the only reason people bothered to turn out for this. Now that they've seen it, they can all go back to flocking to see SPECTRE

[Napoleon Solo]

I saw a 007 message board where someone appeared to gloat the Star Wars global weekend figure fell short of Jurassic World's $525 million global opening weekend.

[bjmdds]

With the Christmas and New Year's holidays ahead of it, the domestic run for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is only getting started. In addition to the additional aid it will receive from the holidays; repeat viewings and strong word of mouth (the film received an A rating on CinemaScore) are sure to help The Force Awakens in a big way going forward as well.

The audience breakdown for Star Wars: The Force Awakens skewed towards male moviegoers (58 percent) and towards moviegoers over the age of 25 (63 percent). Family audiences made up 20 percent of the film's overall audience this weekend. 3D grosses represented 47 percent of the film's overall grosses. IMAX 3D (which is also included in the overall 3D split) accounted for an estimated $30.1 million (12.6 percent) of the film's overall grosses. With an overseas start of $279.0 million thus far, the estimated global total through Sunday for Star Wars: The Force Awakens is $517.0 million.

[bjmdds]

I saw a 007 message board where someone appeared to gloat the Star Wars global weekend figure fell short of Jurassic World's $525 million global opening weekend.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens crushed box office records around this world this weekend, grossing a total of $279 million overseas. The film doesn't open in China until January 9, a factor that prevented it from attaining even more records in its debut frame. The overseas tally came in as the third highest of all time, behind Jurassic World's $316 million (including $97 million from China)........ ECH-TRE is now at a worldwide total of $836,121,132, "$272 million" BEHIND the prior film, and the run basically over, except for mop up time at the box office.

[Omega]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is estimated at $238 million this weekend for US-Canada, $517 million globally.

I'm not so sure it will fall short of Jurassic world .
In my hick town the theater was over half full. I think they added an earlier showing to keep up with demand. Next showing had people lined to go in the theater we just left , I think there were two other showings after ours. This is a monster movie

Btw my verdict is it did not suck. Not quite to the level of the originals but feels like where it could have gone. It's a blast ! My whole family is going Christmas Day. And that's saying something


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[Omega]

I saw a 007 message board where someone appeared to gloat the Star Wars global weekend figure fell short of Jurassic World's $525 million global opening weekend.

it is kind of funny when the monster movie bond will never be stubs it's toe on Jurassic world but this one is going to be huge. I'm going to see it a few more times and I never do that


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[Goldeneye]

Story about the salaries involved in The Force Awakens
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... idley.html

Hollywood veteran Harrison Ford will rake in more than £23 million for his role in the new Star Wars blockbuster, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Insiders say Disney producers were so determined to get the 73-year-old to reprise his role as Han Solo for The Force Awakens that they agreed a £16.7 million fee.

Ford will also get a 0.5 per cent share of the film’s gross earnings, which are expected to break records by hitting at least £1.3 billion. It means the actor’s share could be worth £6.5 million.
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Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.

They received £300,000 each for their starring roles in the movie, which opened in UK cinemas on Thursday. However, once worldwide box-office takings have topped the $1 billion mark, the pair will also start to receive a small cut.

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American J. J. Abrams, 49, was paid £3.3 million to direct the film, plus a two per cent share of gross earnings. Disney paid just over $4 billion to buy Lucas Films, which make Star Wars, three years ago.

Carrie Fisher, 59, was paid just over £1 million to bring back Princess Leia.

[bjmdds]

CR and SK-Awful were both on cable tv here tonight. I watched the last 15 minutes of SK-Awful and 10 minutes of CR. It's intolerable for me to watch Cr-egg His facial profile is hideous. His acting is horrific. Eva Green had no chemistry with Cr-egg in CR. Bardem is one of the worst villains EVER Dench really stunk in SF and her death scene with Cr-egg had ZERO chemistry. How is this clown allowed to be Bond Who are the morons that eat this garbage up that Broccoli is shoveling? I detest Cr-egg more now than I ever did as an actor, especially as James Bond He's so wrong for the role